Demographic games

Demographic games

My final election recap from a conservative point of view: How naive, credulous and obtuse are the 49 percent of us who voted for Mitt Romney? We actually thought that at least 51 percent of Americans (us and an additional 3 percent) would go the integrity, personal responsibility, values, ethics, morals and scruples route.

We thought holding leaders accountable for their record mattered, that scandals and coverups in an administration actually meant something and that getting the entrepreneurs of the prison camp they feel like they've been in was important. What fools we were.

It's a shame that Democratic operatives had to basically agree that to get their 50 percent, they needed to hit hard and amass big majorities among the black vote, Latino vote, college kids and young single women vote. They also had to get about 15 percent of your average hard-working couples (straight and gay) across the country - people like me and you.

Romney wouldn't play this game. He had too much class and faith that voters would look at Obama's abysmal record and do the right thing. The only demographic card the conservatives "play" is to attract Americans who put the good of the country first. They can be people of all races and religious faiths.

So if the Republicans are to win in 2016 (by a 50-49 margin), they'll have to "play the game" and nominate a Sen. Marco Rubio (Cuban decent) or a Condi Rice-type person. Do we need to change our "brand" and our principles? No. If the Democrats had lost 50-49 last week, would they change their brand? I don't think so. The fight goes on!

SCOTT DURHAM

Haddonfield

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Demographic games

Demographic gamesMy final election recap from a conservative point of view: How naive, credulous and obtuse are the 49 percent of us who voted for Mitt Romney? We actually thought that at least 51